From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b5ab7c96b188b59e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-15 09:45:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The "()" operator revisited. References: <4003EEEC.40106@noplace.com> <%1WMb.25$3f4.77748@news20.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:30:51 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1074187798 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:29:58 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:29:58 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4439 Date: 2004-01-15T12:30:51-05:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>Was operator assignment ever considered for Ada? If it was, and shot >>down, what were the primary reasons against it? > > See AARM-7.6(17.a). > > - Bob I looked at this, but this doesn't really address the question. This info talks about controlled types, adjust etc. and what it should or shouldn't do, implementation details etc. Perhaps I need to rephrase the question: If C++ proponents thought it necessary (or useful) to include an assignment operator, why was it that the Ada language (Ada83) was developed without one? Can anyone answer this or point back to early Ada discussions about this? -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk